Indigenous Language Institute

Announcing Upcoming

ILI 2015 Events

LANGUAGE IMMERSION PLANNING AND METHODOLOGY WORKSHOP

Embassy Suites Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico

MARCH 9-11, 2015

This 3-day workshop will train those who interact regularly with early childhood / Head Start through grade 12 where Native language is the main language of activity. For more information and to register click here (for a PDF version of the registration form). Click here for an Agenda. Deadline to make your hotel reservations is February 6, 2015.

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LANGUAGE IMMERSION PLANNING AND METHODOLOGY WORKSHOP

Mystic Lake Casino Hotel, Prior Lake, Minnesota

MARCH 30-April 1, 2015

This 3-day workshop will train those who interact regularly with early childhood / Head Start through grade 12 where Native language is the main language of activity. For more information and to register click here (for a PDF version of the registration form). Click here for an Agenda. Deadline to make your hotel reservation is February 28, 2015.

Embassy Suites Hotel, Albuquerque, New Mexico

JUNE 28 -30, 2015

This 3-day workshop will teach how to develop language teaching guides (curriculum) founded on one's cultural values and worldview that will work in tandem with school standards. Participants will develop language activities (lesson plans) and learn how to track learners' progress and comprehension (assessment). Particpants will have opportunities to share and learn from each other in networking sessions. For more information and to register click here (for a PDF version of the registration form). Deadline to make your hotel reservations is May 22, 2015.

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Please check with us regularly as other 2015 events will be announced soon or you can click on the icon to the right and join our e-mail list to receive those announcements by e-mail.

Don't forget that ILI can be contracted to provide these and many other workshops in your community. If interested or for more information contact ILI at (505) 820-0311 or by e-mail: ili@ilinative.org.

Our Mission

The Indigenous Language Institute provides vital language related services to Native communities so that their individual identities, traditional wisdom and values are passed on to future generations in their original languages.

Guiding Philosophy

ILI’s guiding philosophy is to “help create speakers” of endangered indigenous languages while we still have speakers left.

This work is URGENT. Collectively we must work diligently with haste within a ten-year window, careful not to duplicate efforts, to turn the tide of language decline so that indigenous languages become a vibrant component of everyday life in Indian communities.

What We Do

ILI Researches, Teaches and Shares information and tools to empower Native communities to make their languages SEEN and HEARD everywhere and by everyone.

ILI’s tools and training help people create their own Native language materials to develop textbooks, teaching aids, films, digital stories, as well as flyers, brochures, posters, toys, and signage.